Orcas of the Pacific Northwest are Starving and Disappearing

*World's Biggest Dam Removal Project (Removal of the Elwha and Glines Canyon hydroelectric dams)

*Why Do We Build Dams? (Grades 4-6)

*Climate Impacts of the Northwest

*The environmental impact of damming the Columbia River. One school explores the problem and possible solutions.

Tribes in Columbia River Gorge hit by White House decision.

*Down the Mighty Columbia, Where a Power Struggle Looms (newspaper article). Nearly half of the nation’s hydropower electricity comes from more than 250 hydropower dams that were built on the Columbia and its tributaries — a vast and complex arc of industry and technology that touches tens of millions of lives across the West every day.

*Chemicals of Emerging Concern in the Columbia River (Environmental Protection Agency Research)

*Tribal Fish Consumption:Learn about EPA's work to help document tribal fish consumption rates and potential health risks from chemical pollution in certain species of fish.

• Idaho Tribal Fish Consumption Survey
• Columbia River Fish Contaminant Survey

*Cold Water Refuges Project:EPA is helping protect and restore vital cold water habitat to support current and future salmon populations. Learn more about these cold water refuges in the Columbia River.

*10 Big Issues for Columbia River Salmon (article)

*Columbia River Treaty (viewpoint/opinion piece) (newspaper article)